[csw-maintainers] gar suggestion

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from William Bonnet's message of Sat Aug 14 10:04:12 -0400 2010:

Hi William,

> > Sebastian and I discussed this too but I decided against it.
> > Here's the reason: If you don't do the initial git snapshots at
> > extract and then patch time, you don't have a repo to work from.
> 
> Would it be a good idea and possible to deactivate this featre from
> the .garrc file ?

It's possible, but it's an all or nothing switch then.  If you turn it
off and then decide you want to make a patch, you need to redo the
extract and patch steps to have the .git repo created and previous
patches tracked.

I'll implement this if desired, but support for it hasn't been there
yet.  What packages would you find this most useful in conjunction
with?  Are you paying the extract+patch price frequently (eg: lots of
gmake spotless, etc)?

Thanks
-Ben
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